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Zimbabwe Deputy Prime Minister Says Libyan Envoy Deserved Expulsion

Deputy Prime Minister Mutambara said Taher Elmagrahi lost the right to be envoy to Harare when he abruptly shifted his allegiance

In Nigeria, Zimbabwean PM Tsvangirai Urges Peaceful Resolution of Harare Crisis

Mr. Tsvangirai said the African Union should help ensure Zimbabwe does not experience the post-election violence seen in Ivory Coast

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MDC officials said their curriculum is designed to teach a new way of politics that breaks with Zimbabwean politics of the past 30 years

Kimberley Process Members Urge Diamond Watchdog To Sharpen Zimbabwe Focus

Diamond activist Farai Maguwu said participants were also worried by Harare’s failure to demilitarize Marange as agreed in 2009

Zimbabwe Companies Say State Electric Utility Using Coercive Rate Tactics

ZESA spokesman Fullard Gwasira said the special tariff is designed to save power and boost production in various industrial sectors.

South Africa Expert Urges Full Support for New Land Policy

Somadoda Fikeni said plan could make the country a breadbasket for Southern Africa
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Zimbabwe Expels Libyan Ambassador for Supporting Anti-Gadhafi Forces

Open Society Institute governance expert Ozias Tungwarara said Harare's decision was unwise given how fast events are moving in Libya

Rights Groups Cite Zimbabwe Government Agency in Illegal Diamond Sales

Chiadzwa Community Development Trust Project Coordinator Melanie Chiponda said security guards often set attack dogs on villagers

Political Violence in Zimbabwe Down in July, Says Watchdog Group

The Zimbabwe Peace project said violence had eased in July, but warned that political tensions remained high across the country

Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF Party Tense Following Another Suspicious Farm Fire

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Yemen - Yemen President Takes Marching Orders From U.S. Embassy


Yemen - Yemen President 

Takes Marching Orders From U.S. Embassy

By Richard Smallteacher, Wikileaks staff 6 February 2011
New cables released by Wikileaks show that the Yemeni government held 28 Yemeni citizens in prison on behalf of the United States, despite the fact that a Yemeni government investigation showed that “there was no evidence they were involved in terrorist acts.”
The cable (04SANAA3023), dated December 6, 2004, recounts a meeting between Thomas C. Krajeski, then U.S. ambassador to Yemen and Ali Abdullah Saleh, the current president of Yemen who has ruled the country since 1978. Saleh has been a long time supporter of U.S. policy in the Middle East and the cables provide evidence that he takes his marching orders directly from Washington in return for favors.
"We are waiting for information from you," Saleh was quoted as saying, to decide whether or not to release the 28 suspects for the annual Ramadan amnesty.
In return Saleh asked that the U.S. for a series of favors. "Where is the money for the Army, and what about my spare (F-5) parts?" he is quoted as saying. Saleh also asked the ambassador to convey “his strong desire to visit Washington to personally congratulate President Bush on his reelection and meet with newly appointed senior officials” to talk about “important new developments in the region "that can only be discussed face to face."
When the ambassador told Saleh that “any meetings with senior U.S. officials would quickly turn to the subject of Yemen’s huge grey market” in small arms and light weapons “that Yemen needs to gain control over.” "I will do it!" Saleh exclaimed, insisting that he was already "cracking down," according to the cable.
Saleh faces strong opposition in Yemen from a variety of political parties. Like Egypt and Tunisia, his country has seen major protests in the last few weeks, which has forced Saleh to announce that he will step down in 2013.

Press Release - موقع ويكيليكس يبدأ باطلاق مخاطبات سرية للسفارات الامريكية


Press Release - موقع ويكيليكس يبدأ باطلاق مخاطبات سرية للسفارات الامريكية

الاحد 28 نوفمبر 2010
بدأ موقع ويكيليكس هذا المساء بنشر 251,287 برقية كانت قد تسربت من السفارات الامريكية والتي تعد اكبر حزمة وثائق سرية تطلق الى العلن.
المنظمة تقول بان الوثائق ستمنح الشعوب حول العالم رؤية فريدة لنشاطات الحكومة الامريكية على صعيد السياسة الخارجية . البرقيات التي يبدأ تاريخها منذ عام 1966 وصولا الى شهر فبراير من هذه السنة تحتوي على مخاطبات سرية بين 274 سفارة امريكية موزعة حول بلدان العالم وبين وزارة الخارجية الامريكية في واشنطن دي سي. 15,652 وثيقة منها مصنفة على انها برقيات سرية.
قال المتحدث جوليان اسنج "تكشف الوثائق عن قيام الولايات المتحدة الامريكية بالتجسس على حلفائها وعلى الامم المتحدة وعن قيامها بالتغاضي عن الفساد الاداري والاعتداءات على حقوق الانسان في الدول التي ترتبط معها بمصالح وتكشف كذلك عن صفقات سرية مع دول يفترض انها محايدة وممارسة ضغوط من الشركات الامريكية وتدابير تتخذ من قبل دبلوماسيين لدفع اؤلئك الذين يستطيعون الوصول اليهم"
"اطلاق هذه الوثائق يكشف التناقض بين ما يطرحه الامريكان في العلن ومايقولونه خلف الابواب المغلقة وكذلك يبين كشف الوثائق عن انه اذا كان المواطنون في ظل الديمقراطية يريدون من حكومتهم ان تعكس امانيهم فان عليهم كمواطنون ان يطالبوا بمعرفة ماذا يجري خلف الستار".
واضاف بان "كل طفل يدرس في المدرسة بان جورج واشنطن-اول رئيس للبلد- لايستطيع ان يقول كذبة. لو كانت اداراة خلفائه عاشت تحت نفس المبدء فان سيل وثائق اليوم سوف لن يكون الا حرجا بسيطا" "وبدلا من ذلك حذرت الحكومة الامريكية حكومات – حتى حكومات فاسدة اداريا - حول العالم من الوثائق المسربة القادمة وابلغتها بان عليها ان تستعد لتتعرض لذلك"
وعلى خلاف الوثائق التي اطلقتها ويكيليكس سابقا , عندما نشرت كميات كبيرة من الوثائق دفعة واحدة, فان المنظمة ستطلق وثائق السفارات على شكل مراحل " ستطلق برقيات السفارات على شكل مراحل خلال الاشهر القليلة المقبلة . موضوعات تلك الوثائق على درجة من الاهمية وتشكل انتشارا جغرافيا واسعا, هذا ما علينا فعله وان لم نفعل فلن تحقق العدالة من تلك الوثائق.
"نحن نعيرها للشعوب التي تثق بنا وبتوثيقنا للتاكد من توفر الوقت لهم ليكتب عنها, تعليقات عليها ونقاشات واسعة في العلن , انه لشيء مستحيل ان تطلق مئات الاف من الوثائق مرة واحدة. ولذلك سنقوم باطلاق الوثائق بشكل تدريجي خلال الاسابيع والاشهر القادمة."
"بينما تكشف الوثائق سخرية الدبلوماسية المروعة والاعتداء ففي الحقيقة ان تلك المعلومات المسربة تظهر بان هناك اناس جيدون وشجعان في داخل الحكومة يؤمنون بالشفافية وبسياسة خارجية اكثر اخلاقية. وهم يبحثون عن اصلاح المؤسسات التي يعملون فيها , وهو الهدف الذي كما كشفت الوثائق المسربة في غاية الاهمية لكل المواطنيين في كل البلدان. وما بيان اليوم يظهر بان اولئك الشجعان ليسوا عاجزين ولكن رد فعل العالم على تلك البرقيات هو الذي سيقرر الى اي مدى ستؤدي من التغيير."
"خلال الاسابيع القادمة سنتمكن من الحكم على الاجواء السياسية في عشرات الدول من خلال رد فعلهم. هل سيدخلون في حملات قمع والهاء ام انهم سيستغلونها فرصة للاصلاح؟" ارقام مهمة:
الرقم الكلي 251,288 وثيقة , تضم 261,276,536 (تعادل سبع اضعاف مدونات" حرب العراق" ما كان يعد اكبر عملية تسريب معلومات سرية في العالم) قراءة شخص للبرقيات لاعداد اطروحة دكتوراه واحدة تستغرق منه 70 عاما لقرأة كل الملفات.
البرقيات تغطي من تاريخ 28 ديسمبر 1966 الى 28 فبراير 2010 وجمعت من 274 سفارة وقنصلية وملحقية دبلوماسية.

طبقا لنظام تصنيف الخارجية الامريكية فان الموضوعات تكرارا في المناقشات هي: 
- العلاقات السياسية الخارجية 145,451


- شؤون الحكومة الداخلية -122,896 
- حقوق الانسان -55,211 
- 49,044 الضروف الاقتصادية- 
- الارهابيون والارهاب -28,801 
- الامم المتحدة مجلس الامن -6,532 
- العراق هو اكثر بلد تدور النقاشات حوله -15,365 (البرقيات التي اتت من العراق6,677) 
- السفارة في انقرة-تركيا هي السفارة التي ارسلت اكبر عدد من البرقيات-7,918 
- اوامر ارسلت من دوائر وزارة الدولة 8,017 يبلغ عدد البرقيات المصنفة على انها سرية 15,652 وعدد البرقيات المصنفة على انها شخصية 101,748 وهناك 133,887 برقية غير مصنفة من حيث درجة الكتمان اوالسرية -


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Disaster recovery This week saw New York City experience more than its fair share of natural disasters, though at a less severe cost than expected. As if the magnitude-5.8 earthquake in the state of Virginia wasn't enough to rattle New Yorkers, Hurricane Irene set its path straight for the city over the weekend, triggering mass evacuations all along the north-eastern seaboard. This issue looks at natural and man-made disasters, encouraging readers to examine how our cities are prepared to mitigate and recover from them. Perhaps staying consistent with the topic of disaster, we also take a look at developments in the crisis in Libya. With rebels in control of Tripoli and Muammar Qaddafi missing, at this point it remains unclear how Libyans will be able to move forward and establish a new democracy. Be it in Washington, DC, Libya or Somalia, it becomes clearer with every disaster that human populations are forced to address a common set of factors (community, transportation, environmental and land-use) when planning for catastrophe. Our readings this week seek to indirectly address these factors regardless of the type of disaster encountered.
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08/31/11

The Best Responses to 9/11 -- And the Worst
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I was in bed at a New York hotel when my stock trader called to say that one of the Twin Towers had been hit by an airplane. “A horrible accident,” he surmised, adding “unprecedented” to the presumption. He told me to turn on the “tube,” such nomenclature dating him as middle-aged. The phone rang again: “The second tower is on its way down. And, of course, this means it is no accident at all.” Which was my intuition as soon as I’d heard the first terrible tidings. Moreover, I knew instinctively who’d done the dreadful deed; and it wasn’t a new version of the Unabomber. Indeed, if anybody had had time to poll the public on who was responsible for the death of 3,000 before they had been told, a vast majority would have concluded that it was Muslim extremists. Everybody knew, although some of the discombobulated newscasters were afraid to say unless or until it was “confirmed” by authority. News of other related disasters began to filter in: the airplane that crashed into the Pentagon and the one that slammed into the deserted field in Pennsylvania.

Where was my family? There was no horrible news from Boston, except, to be sure, that one of the fated airplanes had taken off from security-hapless Logan Airport with Mohamed Atta and his satanic comrades on board. (They had been on various “alert” lists. But nobody checked any of them.) I could make no contact with my wife until much later in the day. My son and his girlfriend (now married and the parents of two children) were in Paris and were kept there for days until the skies cleared, so to speak—even as James Baker was able to arrange a private jet flight for an exit from the United States for the many bin Laden kin who had settled in our country. My daughter, who then lived two blocks from the World Trade Center, was in a dentist’s chair somewhere on the Upper East Side, although we didn’t know this for several hours until cellular phone service was more or less restored. Before that, I’d spoken with my son-in-law, the first in the family to succeed in making contact. He’d gone in pursuit of his wife, having joined that seemingly endless trek of New Yorkers who were marching north, a bit dazed, to the Upper East and West Sides, while others were traipsing laterally to Brooklyn, Long Island, and New Jersey.

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